Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-29

There are in all our denominations
ecclesiastical mummies sitting around to
frown upon the fresh young pulpits OF
America, to try to awe them down
to cry out: "Tut! tut! tut! Sensational"
They stand to-day preaching in churches
that hold 1000 people, and there are 100
persons present, and if they cannot have
the world saved II their way 1t seems as
if they do not want il saved at all.
do not know but the old way OF max
ing ministers of the Gospel is better-a
collegiate education and an apprentice
ship under the care and home attention
of some earnest, aged Christian minister,
the young man getting the patriarch' )
spirit and assisting him in his religious
service. Young lawyers study with old
lawyers, young physicians with old physi-
clans, and | believe it would be great
help il every young man studying for the
Gospel ministry could put himself in the
home, and heart, and sympathy, aud
under the benediction ard perpetual
presence Of Christian minister.
But l remark again, the religious dis
course OF the future will be
AN AWAKENING SERMON.
From altar rail to the front door step
under that sermon an audience will get
up aud start for heaven. There will he
in it many stsCCsto passage. Ii will
not be q lullaby; 1t will be q battle
charge. Men will drop their sins for
they Will feel the hot breath Of pursuing
retributiOn on the back of their neCks
1t will be sympathetic with ali the physical
distresses as well ss the spiritual dis
tresses of the world. Christ not only
preached, but He healed paralysis, and
He healed epilepsy, and He healed the
dumb and the blind and ten lepers.
That religious discourse of the future
will be an everyday sermon, going right
down into every mans life, aud it will
teach him now to vote, how 10 bargain,
how to pillow, how to do any work he is
called TO, how to WELD trowel end pen
and pencil and yGrdstiCk and plane. And
it will teach women how to preside over
their households, and how to educate
their children, and how to initiate Miriam
aud Esther, and Fashti snd EuniCe, the
mother OF Timothy, and Mary, the
IN Their Of Christ; and those women
who on northern and southern bst'letields
were mistaken by the wounded for angels
of mercy fresh from the throne Of God.
Yes, have to tell you the religious
discourse OF the future will be q reported
sermon. If you have any idea thst
printing was invented simply to print
secular books, and stenOgIaphy and
were Contyived merely to set
forth secular ideas, you are mistaken.
The printing press is TO be the great
agency of gospel proclamation. 1t is
high time that good men, instead Of de-
nouucing the press employ it TO SETTER
forth the gospel Of Jesus Christ. The
vast majority of people in our cities do
not come TO church, and nothing bat the
printed sermon Csn reach them and call
them to pardon, and life, and
PEACE AND HEAVEN.
SO ! cannot understand the nervous
ness Of some Of my brethren il the min
lstry. When they see q newspaper man
coming in they say; calais, there is q
reporter" Every added reporter is
10000, 80, 0G0, loo, 600 immortal souls ad
ded to the auditory. The time will come
VIXEN all the village, town and city news
papers Will reproduce the gospel Of Jesus
Christ, and sermons preached on the Sab
bath willITeveTberate all around the world,
and, some by type, and some by voice,
al nations will be evangelical.
The practical bearing of this is upon
those VINO are engaged 10 Christian work,
not only upon theological students and
young ministers, but upon ell who preach
the gospel, and all who eXhOTt in meet |
ngs, and that is all Of you if you are do .
ing your duty. Do you eXhOTt in prayer
meeting? Be short and be spirited |
Do you teach in Bible class? |
ThOUgl you have to study every night |
De interesting. Do you aCCOst people |
IN the subject OF religion IN their homes |
Or in public places? Study adroitness |
lnd use C1mmOn-sense. The most grace |
uI and most beautiful thing on earth is |
he religion OF Jesus Christ, and if you |
lwksrdly present it, it is defamation. |
We must do our work rapidly, and we /
must do it effectively. Soon our time fer |
work will be gone.
: dying Christian took out his watch /
md gave it to g friend and said: "Take |
hat watch, have no more use for it; |
ime is ended for me and eternity be- /
yjl5." On, my friends, when our watch .
las licked away for Us the last moment, /
md our clocE has struck for US the last
.Our, may it be found we did our work f..
veil, that we did it in the very best wsy,
nd whether we preached the Gospel In
'uIpits or taught Sabbath classes, or ad-
TO the sick as physicians, or
Dargsined as merchants, or plead the law
$ attorneys, or were busy as artisans, OF
s hUsbsudmcn, or as mechanics, or were
Ike Martha called to give meal TO 8
ungry Christ, or like Hannah to make q
Ost for 9 prophet, or like Deborah to
Ouse the courage Of some timid Barak in
he Lords conflict, WE did our work 10
UGH q way that it will stand
THE TEST OF THE JUDGMENT.
md in the long procession Of the re-
eemei that msrch around the throne,
lay it be found there are many there
rought to God through our instrument
Atty and in whose rescue we are eXult-
ut
But, o you unssved, wait not for that
aligIOUs discourse of the future. 1t may
ONE after your obsequies. 1t may
ONE after the stOne-cutter has Chiselled
ur name on the slab, fifty years before.
70 not wait for q great steamer of the
unaTd or White Star Line TO take you
# the wreck, but nail the first craft with
OWever low mast snd however small q
ulk, and however poor q rudder, and
Oweyer weak captain. Better 8 dis
3led schooner that comes up in time
ian full-rIgged brig that comes up af-
IT you have sunken.
Instead Of waiting for that religious
lscourse Of the future-lt may be forty,
tty years off-take this plain invitation
man who, to have given you spirit !
81 eyesight, would be glad to be called
lie spittle by the hand of Christ put on ..
le eyes of blind man, and who would :
)nsiders the highest compliment Of this ;